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What happens when: dawg takes to twitter as her nemesis loulounilly!

Hash tags: #graffiti, #socialmedia, #tagging

This week I have been looking into Twitter, how the graffiti community communicate via this form of social media. My first tweet and hash tag for this week’s experiment with social networking has been somewhat successful. Because I consider that graffiti should be defined as social media I used #socialmedia in one of my tweets.  “Is #graffiti #socialmedia? http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-graffiti-social-media.html”. The post initiated a response, re-tweet and inclusion in an associated Twitter paper.li web page by Danny Peters http://paper.li/dannypeters_/1310827243 which looks at Social Media 2.0 Trends.

The hash tags #socialmedia #graffiti initiated the incorporation.

VoCKlantreizen Danny Peters

Social Media 2.0 Trends is out! bit.ly/oXQUuM ▸ Top stories today via @admmarioartur @loulounilly

My second tweet utilised another one of my blog posts, this time about the consequences of getting caught tagging along with the link to the GRAFFITIdawg blog: http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/09/graffitidawg-looks-into-results-of.html. I have the use of a platform called Tweetdeck, combined with a service called Deck.ly (instead of 140 letters Tweetdeck/Deck.ly allows for double that amount) which enables me to write longer tweet posts).

There was disappointment on my part that the tweet “Do you think people should be given a jail sentence if they are caught”, using the hash tags"#tagging" #graffiti? http://bit.ly/n2hYbH” did not generate any responses even after personally re-tweeting the post. To be very frank Twitter is unpredictable with who follows what in which trend, and admittedly, graffiti and associated artistry does not appear to ‘trend’ very well.

Graffiti is a tough medium to chat about via social media without getting into a ‘degenerate youth’ conversation with some interesting characters. After some in-depth research across twitter trending hash tags, my favourite subject does not appear to be popular (who knew!).

As a prolific Internet user, and a fan of social networking, I tend to have Twitter/Tweetdeck quietly humming in the background of my computer/iPhone; this allows that inter-connective-ness across the twitterati to multiple personalities who deem it interesting to connect right back.

IS? Graffiti Social Media?

From Social Media To Human Media - critical reflection on social media & some design methods to design social environments

View more presentations from Niels Hendriks Susan Herring and associates have concluded that, '... social networks consist of people connected through various social relationships and exchanges ...' (Herring et al, 2005). dawg is prepared to argue here that GRAFFITI and its derivatives (paste-ups, tagging etc. etc.) is just that - socialisation , but in pictorial form. Artists and taggers express themselves to each another and to an ever widening audience (thanks to the Internet) in a manner that is saying something about them in a language that others can understand

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So by graffiti(ing) on my own image, what does that say about me? 

Social spaces - cumulus conference Paris 2011

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Are we all contributing to social spaces by using a variety of
graffiti, to send a message in one form or another to each other like the
Ancient Egyptians did with pictographs?. (dawg does
not condone the use of illegal drugs btw...Image 4.
((which has now been painted over by the Hobart City Council 10-10-2011))
So is graffiti a social message then? AND who are they talking to about what?

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